Dominique had a car accident while driving over a bridge and thereafter developed an intense phobia of driving over bridges. In
an effort to cure Dominique's phobia, a psychologist gradually motivated him to drive over bridges. After many sessions of having nonthreatening experiences while driving over bridges, Dominique's phobia was cured. This is an example of ______.
Extinction: In psychology, the term extinction refers to the process being used in ABA i.e, applied behavioral analysis in which the reinforcement is provided for the specific problem behavior is discontinued to eliminate the re-occurrence of such negative behaviors.
In other words, it refers to the gradual or slow weakening of a particular conditioned response that leads to the disappearing behavior i.e, the conditioned behavior stops.
In the question above, the psychologist helped Dominique by motivating to drive, hence Dominique's phobia was cured, and is an example of extinction.
